I hate to start a new topic on this but I just cannot find the answer I need. I installed LMDE which comes with GNOME. I hate GNOME and am trying to install XFCE now. Every thing I search for seems to come to the conclusion that I should do the following:

Yes, I have updated the apt-get repository. I also under stand that installing XFCE4 using apt-get install XFCE4 I will still be using all of the GNOME applications. I want to make sure I install all of the XFCE native applications as well. Thanks.